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There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

Stanisław I Leszczyński
Breeding, Observation, Politeness
François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.179
There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.